The Flash Kit Team

Mike Houghton, Managing Editor

Mike, aka Planet originally comes from a hardware and development background while furthering his education at several technical schools, and with over 15 years of IT experience has a broad resume of IT research and development experience.
 
Mike joined WebMediaBrands in September of 2002 as a contributing writer and took over as Flash Kit Managing Editor in November of 2004 and continues handle the day to day rigger of running the site. Mike also continues to serve as Managing editor for www.Jars.com and a freelance writer and moderator for several other forums and development sites. Mike is joined by team of developers, engineers and network specialists who all work behind the scenes on a daily basis keeping the worlds largest Flash community available 24 x 7.

The Volunteers

Flash Kit's success is not just in the team running the site, but in the many volunteers who spend countless hours moderating the board. You can take a look here to see who they are, what they do and if they're currently online. These are industry pros who set aside time each day/week to devote to helping newcomers and those with complex questions regarding Flash and other third-party products. By volunteering their time, they are also contributing greatly to the growth of the Flash Design and Development Community. To learn more about these amazing deities, check out the Mod Squad Forum.

From Mark Fennell, the creator of Flash Kit

About Flash Kit.... Flash Kit started late October in 1999. We built it because we wanted to create a resource site that as flash developers, we would find useful. We built it to create a one stop raw materials centre for flash creations, after having spent hours surfing for sounds, images and ideas, it seemed to me a great idea to collate and collect as much as we could into one place!

We never realised how much hard work has to go into creating a site of this nature. At every point we take a step back and think to ourselves "would that help us?", "Would that be useful?". Combined with the task of sourcing content, collating content, presenting content, administering the site, promoting the site, and adding functionality to the site, whoah, some serious late nights!

To undertake the site I partnered with Steve Williams from TurnAround Solutions, CEO of an Australian development house. Between us we have pushed Flash Kit to the limit, hopefully providing a valuable and useful site to the flash and multimedia community at large.

In January 2000, we became part of the internet.com network, a great sign of recognition, and its propelled the site further forward with us being able to create a host of new features, and even better, we have lots of bandwidth to use!

Flash Kit succeeds because of the generosity of the community it serves, and I would like to say a special thanks to the users, and the contributors out there who have used, seen, or sent to Flash Kit, your contributions, loyalty and support over the years. It is truly appreciated.

Regards,
Mark Fennell
Flash Kit Founder Sydney, Australia.
www.markfennell.com